The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10

in her.
The Emperor William has surviv-
ed no fewer than seventy.two reigning
sovereigns who were his contemporaries,
viz, fifty-two kings or queens, eight
emperors, six sultans and six popes. OF
these three were kings Of Prussia.
The three candidates for governor
in Ohio, Mr.. Foraker, the Republican;
MIR. Powell, Democrat; and Mr.. Sharpe,
Prohibitionist; are all Methodists. Mr..
Powell is son-law-of the late Bishop
Thompson. It takes Methodism to get
into the high places.
Julian Hawthorne complains that
he cannot recall notice in any periodical
OF any OF his works during the last fifteen
years in which the critic hasn't suggest
ed that his lamented father would have
made great deal more out of the same
material. And the thorn is all the sharp
er because of the general agreement with
the critic.
Miss Winnaretta Singer, the daugh-
ter OF the sewing machine millionaire
is worth more than one million dollars
in her own right. But notwithstanding
this; and the fact that she is about to
marry the Prince de Seey Montbellard,
she cultivates her talent for painting as
assiduously as though her bread and
butter depended upon it.
AT Bennington Center, VT, will
presently be seen monument with this
inscription: "On this spot William Lloyd
Garrison edited The Journal of the
Times October 3, 1828-March 81, 1929.
Hither came Benjamin Lundy to enlist
him in the cause of the slave. Garrison
departed hence to lift up in Baltimore
the banner of Immediate Emancipation.
Queen Msrgherita, of Italy, asked
her husband, King Humbert, at the be-
ginning OF the summer, il he thought her
still young enough to wear white muslin
dresses. The king said he must have time
to think it over, and in few weeks his
answer came,-a huge trunk from Par
is, containing half dozen white dresses
OF the most youthful style, ordered from
a swell dressmaker regardless OF expense.
A good story is told about Salvini's
attempt to learn the English language.
He took lessons in English, but when he
found that it was necessary to say that
person went ION foot" he objected. "We
do not go to place on foot" said he
1--WE go on feet. When language is SO
absurd and extravagant as to say that a
person goes on foot, what is the use of
learning it?" And thereupon he aband-
oned the English language.
The wife of Viceroy LII, of China,
recently paid visit to the foreign hos
pital for women at Tien Tsin, and show
ed much sympathy with the poor pa
tients. When she came out her chair
was surrounded by crowds of wretched-
looking women and girls who begged
for aims. Lady Lii ordered her attend
ants to distribute money to all alike.
The incident is regarded as noteworthy.
as Chinese dignitaries have paid little
heed to charity.
-Pere Hyacinthe is living in the
suburbs Of Paris. He is chiefly affected
-patronized one might say-by the
evangelical English and several noble
dowsgers are Nine. Loysons intimates.
The Loysons exc out their income by
taking boys into the family for instruc-
ton. The household also comprises some
young priests of the new cult. These are
rendered useful in various ways. A
young boy, an inmate for some time of
the household, says that they fetch and
carry, and that on one young priest de-
wolves the duty of keeping the coal scut-
ties full.
DR.. Edward White, leading Con-
gregationalist OF London, in recent SER
mon, said that some people objected to
the Salvation Army ON account of the
drums and trumpets. For his part he
could not see that their drums and
trumpets were any worse than those
which were used in Westminster Abbey
at the Queens Jubilee service. He read
The War Cry every week, and he was
sure the people were in deadly earnest,
or rather lively earnest. They were stir
ring France as well as England. He
spent an evening with Gen. Booth re-
Gently. The General wore red waist
coat. But he was so delighted with the
earnestness that he found in the old man
that he soon forgot all about the red
waistcoat. He believed that they should
take lesson from the work of the Saliva
ton Army.
Prof. o. s. Fowler, the once famous
phrenologist, who died recently in Shsr-
IN, Conn, was born in 1909, graduated
at Amherst College in 1884, and with his
brother, l.. N. Fowler, became a writer
and lecturer on phrenology, the preser-
walton of health, popular education and
social reform. The Fowlers came to be-